I Write About Love

I write about love.

It took me a while to admit. But pretty much every song in our repertoire with the exception of one is about love. And even that watery decent into the deep chasm on an unforgiving river could arguably be about love.

I am preoccupied with the theme. Love. So connected to loss. So nuanced with hope. So universal. Love is something all of us have experienced—in abundance, in absence, in longing, in loss. In the average day to day.

For me to write a song, I’m usually so overwhelmed with an experience or feeling that I need to get it out. The compulsion to process my truth bares its self as melody, a series of notes which I don’t know how to transcribe to a page, so I hum them into a sound recorder.

Melody couples with words, forming ideas to shape the soundscape. It’s free styling to the theme of my life.  And that is the song. I take my most personal, intimate, overwhelming experiences and distill them into a story that belongs to everyone.

SWEETHEART is about love. Obviously.

Not the love that prevailed in our second album, THE SURFACE, but the type of love that makes us want to do great things.

It’s one of those songs that could so easily be too syrupy sweet to want to swallow. It’s a lot easier to write a sad love song without losing integrity or making listeners cringe. I cringe when listening to some lyrics. There’s a lot of overly-sentimental stuff out there.

The trick to it, I believe, is being honest. Being authentic. Being true to my experiences and true to my heart.

At the time this song came to me, I was falling in love but resisting. I was pulled by the urge to give over everything, to revel in the newness, forgoing shyness and decorum, and to tell my sweetheart I was unquestionably his with complete abandon.

I wrote my heart out as a song. The timing was probably a little better that way.

And now, sweethearts, this song is for you.

–Nadia

I want to call you my sweetheart
I would rock you willingly
Want to carry you far, far away
Want to keep you near to me

I want to answer all your questions
Without saying a thing
Want to kiss you in the daylight
Just to know I still exist

I want to call you my sweetheart
I would rock you willingly
Want to carry you far, far away
Want to keep you near to me

I want to tell you that I love you
But right now’s just too soon
For no words can describe
What my world is going through

I want to call you my sweetheart
I would rock you willingly
Want to carry you far, far away
Want to keep you near to me

I want to come home to you
Let me be home with you
‘cause my home’s with you
With you

Want to romance you tender
Want to fall real hard
Want to totally surrender
Want to give you all my heart

I want to call you my sweetheart
I would rock you willingly
Want to carry you far, far away
Want to keep you near to me

I want to call you my sweetheart
I would rock you willingly
Want to carry you far, far away
Want to keep you near to me
Want to carry you far, far away
Want to keep you near to me

I want to come home to you
Let me be home with you
‘cause my home’s with you
With you